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sin90 = 1 [Video | Bathroom Mirror - Back-timed to afternoon]

[Someone has started recording themselves in a mirror.

It's a young man - Shawn Minamoto from Locke High, should you know him. Around his reflection he's drawn a frame of numbers in black dry-erase marker, pulled from his network number in a series of easy equations as well as a cipher - apparently, he's found the word "giraffe" somewhere in whatever code he worked his numbers into, and has also drawn a giraffe jumping through a hoop somewhere in things.

And in the middle of the numbers, he's leaning into the mirror in a pair of sunglasses, grinning like a loony.]

Heh heh! Where ya been, bunch of scrambled digits?

Heard there's been some zetta radical shit going down all over the grid in town for approximately 1.4 months that I wasn't allowed to know about - 'cept I figure I actually WAS - starting with those codes that no one's been giving out, and word on the street says that having the guts to derive anything out of it gets a poor, stupid ballsy binomial a house on fire, so I figure that for now you SPECIAL factorin' people exclusively - "my people" or some junk like that - get a good eyeful... of my eyes!

[He takes off the sunglasses and smirks - he may or may not be admiring his own yellow cat eyes.]

Feh. Guess I wouldn'ta wanted certain someones dragging me off to get surgery or some garbage anyway. But man, would I have taken swell optics like these over baseline ones almost every zero gets growing in his head.

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Uhh... I got no idea what the hell you just said, dude.

Edited 2013-05-14 22:32 (UTC)

Try that again in English, would you?

[ She's not all too sure what he's saying either, but she can take a guess! It's... hip lingo? Worth a shot. ]

Um, um... yeah! There have been some real rad haps in, uh, several degrees. I think I only know 40% of them.

Woah, but your eyes are absolute zero. I like them!

[ She has no idea what she just said but whatever. It's hip! It's cool! ]

[Hajime can't handle the way this guy is talking, so he'll just respond in the unintelligible language he got back. It's a harsh, snarly-sounding monstrous sort of language, so whatever he's just said sounds unnatural and vaguely evil.

For the record, he's just told Shawn to speak normally.]

Edited 2013-05-15 02:55 (UTC)

[With a grin - more of an Are you for real? kind than a pleasant one.] Well, that zettabytes, don't it.

[Swipes up his marker and sends it squeaking over the glass under Bakura's writing.]

000 clue that sounded ≈ Greek 2 any1.

:P

[This - is actually hilarious.]

Heh!

You tried, but you're still under the curve, sister!

Sub-zero if you wanna be precise. But gee-whiz-thanks anyway.

[That gives him pause - though it doesn't show in much more of a way than his expression freezing.] Come again?

Oh no! I was so close.

Do I get to try again?

Yeah, so I guess you can go zettabyte my ass, then.

[Well! That escalated quickly.]

[ He is just shifting through things atm, not exactly ready to announce himself over the line but still curious enough to see exactly what the numbers had led him into. Some of the things he's heard were weird, but this made him wrinkle his nose in annoyance. English was hard enough, why do people have to make it harder? Oh well, he still managed to figure most of it out. ]

But do they see differently?

[holy shit this guy is a nerd and yet it's kind of charming. let's see if she can parse the lingo]

Events well outside standard deviation from norm, that's a boolean = 1 value.

True statement: you are not the only one with +1 set of altered optical sensors.

[Tick on the webcam. Check out those glowing red peepers!]

[and back to text]

Color hex value of irises changed from around #691F01 to straight up pure #FF0000, complete with internal luminescence.

Mine > yours though, as mine = metal + glass (?). Cybernetics!

[Grinning harrrder.] Yer taking derivatives from functions outta your vector, zero!

Knock yourself out.

[A question he ought to have predicted. He will now stall as he reflects on night vision before and after.]

Are you saying they look useless?

[ fine, he'll just use the facetime connection instead of the voice feature on his phone. So have a ~~too pretty~~ guy looking back. ]

I'm saying that if your eyes changed, the way they see must have changed.

...

Whatever the fuck that means. If you're trying to start up shit with me, it'd probably work better if I could understand you.

[Huzzah, someone else is gonna play.

And check out those glowing red peepers he does!

Up comes his marker again - and he was just about to assent to how if that ain't snazzy indeed when that last uncalled-for bit came in.]

そうですか??

Gimme more on the sum of the parts and prove 2 me mine ain't anything 1 can't fabricate. (= Sure be zetta lame if you got 'cybernetic eyes' that can't do zilch!)

[How charmingly surreal it is to see another person's face in the mirror.]

Huh. Always had 'least 20/20 vision, so can't say I really care whether they've been any better on that plane, but I gotta say they've been pretty nifty in the dark.

That's how stupid it is that I figure I gotta wear shades now.

[ This whole thing is just surreal in general. ]

So cat eyes and cat vision?

[Draws a "+/-" on the glass and slowly, squeakily circles the "+".] Su-u-ure looks like it, huh? Heck if I know what it means, but I'm not complaining about one thing 'sides the ABSOLUTE SECRECY garbage.

It does blow since none of us got a special handshake, or cloaks to wear for super secret meetings. [ Garbage or not, it sounds sensible to keep this quiet. ] But I guess that's what happens when people think the government is ready to kill us all or take us to area 1 for experiments.

[[One moment, he needs to hit up google translate for something]]

αν ήταν ελληνικό, θα είχα μια καλύτερη πιθανότητα την κατανόησή της.

All right!

So, you're new, right?

[ She thinks that's what he was saying. With his hip lingo. ]

...

[oh god, this is giving him flashbacks of high school math. he sucked at high school math.]

Uh. I'd say the shit's been, uh, more...shitty than radical.

[Hajime repeats what he just said, albeit a little more slowly. Even though the language still sounds harsh and unnatural, there's no mistaking a trace of amusement in his voice.]

[Now she's wayyyyy up close to the camera so you can see 'em working. There's clearly an aperture, tiny gears... the works]

Okay, I admit though -- no night vision or laser eyes yet. Eventually? Maybe.

[He laughs. It's sort of a suppressed cackle.] Show me the guy with factorin' TELEKINESIS and say that again, man! Wouldn'ta thought getting jumped by a "dog" at night had a yoctogram of significance 'til I plugged in here.

Edited 2013-05-17 20:12 (UTC)

[And he sure is taking them in. How do they work, what can they do...]

Oh, yeah? Gimme a sign if the place we gotta go to do upgrades needs crackin'. It's relevant to my interests, too!

Pssh! You think THAT'S what I'm saying? I know I don't wanna be worked outta the equation. Doesn't mean that hiding's not lame as fuck.

Besides, I fig the whole network number set IS pretty factoring much a special handshake.

[He doesn't mistake it, indeed.]

Speak up, radian! Mutual equilibrium makes optimal communication!

[The pot shouted at the kettle.]

First day putting that string of digits in my head to work? Positive.

I HAD it since April.

Okay! Everyone has gotten theirs at different times, so people connect randomly. I got mine about two years ago but only used it recently.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me! I'll help in any way I can.

[Shawn's metacommentator was amused.

He however responded fairly immediately with a crooked smile and more writing.]

ZETTA CUTE.

What, do I have 2 write it [Down-arrow.] instead?

Nope, that's what I'm saying. What's a secret society without some kind of dress code? Hiding is lame but I'm not gonna get family into trouble by coming out.

It seems like it is. People with the numbers can see this thing, people without don't even notice anything.

Puh-lease, man, don't get me wrong! I dunno what the bigger waste of time is: starting shit, or simplifying for a sucker who can't be assed to wrap their skull around Z-class terms anyway.

He says this very cheerily, for whatever miniscule amount that might be worth.]

Nah, biggest waste of time is trying to talk to a fucking asshole.

[Said just as cheerfully--right before he breaks the connection. He'll only take so much crap.]

Out-ch.

[That did - indeed - escalate quickly.]

Yeah, sure thing. [Said much-less-than-heartfelt, but moving along.]

Shawn Minamoto.

[ Pshh, she doesn't mind. She'll just smile! ]

I'm Colette Brunel! Nice to meet you.

[Hajime says something else, and it is unspeakably rude and filled with all sorts of threats, because that's just how this language rolls.]

It's simple. I'll start speaking normally if you start speaking normally.

In common English, yeah.

Heh! Ok, kiddo, I'll keep that in mind.

You got a name to put to your variable..?

[OW his poor brain. There's several seconds pause to try to figure that out before he responds again]

...You're not worried abut any of this?

[It's kind of weird to Kotetsu how casually Shawn is talking about all this, as if it's not turning upside-down everything they ever knew about life and implicating the people they were supposed to trust with their welfare in the conspiracy.]

We had any bodies since the ol' Burn Baby Burn House Fire Fiasco?

[Mouth twists a moment - while simultaneously widening his grin.

With his pen and a few sharp strokes he whips up a stylized image of a felinesque skull from the top, draws an arrow from it to his image in the mirror, and next to it writes " = (he scrawls his number in here) = SHAWN MINAMOTO = 'Leo'".

If this source of words will identify itself, that's its choice.]

== Chris Starsky

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